Fiocchi patterns?

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I have used pallets of Fiochhi in 12, 20, 28 and .410.
Add, Fiochhi 24 ga and 32 ga loadings too.

Great Ammo, I like it, I have reloaded Fiocchi hulls using Fiocchi components as well.

Each barrel, each choke is unique, only a pattern board will reveal to you what your barrel/choke is going to do with a loading. Even two guns, one right after another on assembly line, using same ammo, can pattern different.

Fiocchi yep, I recommend it , I recommend it a lot.
 
About a month ago, I finished shooting up about 7500 Fiocchi Multi-Sports (1 oz of #7.5 shot at around 1200 fps) I got back in April. I liked them a lot, and they patterned well in my 425. I REALLY like the 1oz Crushers (#7.5 or #8 shot at 1300 fps). They pattern a bit better for me in that gun, especially with my 15 POC chokes.

Unlike Steve, however, I've not had very good luck reloading them. On my MEC 9000G, I end up with about a 10% rate of unusable shells (usually the end of the hull mangles at the first crimping stage). Also, I've seen first hand (but not had happen to me), several instances of the base separating from the plastic. I've only seen it happen with Multisports (orange hull, very low base). That gives me a bit of a pause with reloading them more than once.

One thing I've noticed this year is that their availability has been pretty spotty. I got a bunch of the Multisports early in the year, and then in the middle of summer I was looking for Crushers. There were none to be had. It seemed like all of their premium stuff (White Rhinos, Papers, Crushers, etc...) was just gone. BTW, this wasn't necessarily unique to Fiocchi, as stocks of Remington and Winchester shells dwindled around the same time. In fact, prior to the State Championships in August, I was scrambling to get decent ammo.

Please note that all this is for 12ga. I haven't shot enough of their subgauge ammo to form an opinion.
 
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